How to Use the dispossessed in a Sentence
the dispossessed
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Her favorite subjects were strivers and oddballs, the dispossessed and the people who dared to be delighted in the face of life’s struggles.
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James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
2023-08-10
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All of them have drawn huge crowds by telling the dispossessed that social status can be reclaimed by throwing out the corrupt elite and replacing it with the leader’s steady hand.
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Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
2023-05-27
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To himself and to a public trying to understand the human drama of migration, of the displaced and the dispossessed.
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Dianne Solis,
Dallas News,
2023-04-18
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The idea that some form of Hinduism should be recognized in some way by the Indian state resonates among both the cosmopolitans and the dispossessed.
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Kanchan Chandra,
Foreign Affairs,
2018-11-23
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Training their attention on the lives of the dispossessed, researchers have identified barriers that keep people at the bottom of the social ladder from climbing its rungs, and offered arguments that usually play out along ideological lines.
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Eyal Press,
The Atlantic,
2023-03-21
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Many of the dispossessed took to the woods and subsisted by slash-and-burn tillage, while others immigrated to Manchuria and Japan in search of jobs; the majority of Korean residents now in those areas are their descendants.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Mar. 2026
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Former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden joined thousands in praising Jackson as an ambassador of hope, and a champion for the poor and the dispossessed.
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NBC news,
15 Mar. 2026
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